whopper-jawed adj.
1. crooked, out of place, damaged, broken.
[ | Memoirs of a Water Drinker 65: His mouth was so wide, and garnished with strong teeth, and his chin with the parts adjacent, assuming the appearance vulgarly called wapper-jaw’d]. | |
Hull Packet 25 June 3/1: She despised steady girls, and called them ’whopper-jawed’. | ||
Yorks. Gaz. 22 July 9/4: What, that long, ganglin’, whopper-jawed thing? Why, I wouldn’t marry him if he was the last man on earth. | ||
DN IV:iii 219: wapper-jawed, crooked. ‘The curtain is wapper-jawed.’ [Ibid.] whocker-jawed, whopper-jawed, womper-jawed, askew. ‘A whocker-jawed skirt.’. | ‘Terms Of Disparagement’ in||
Garden of Sand (1981) 239: He was certain everyone seeing him going on home with whopper-jawed handlebars was laughing at him. | ||
Campus Sl. Sept. 7: whopper-jawed – not even or level. | ||
Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 whockerjawed adj 1. damaged, jammed, or out of alignment. (‘I can’t open the car door because it got whockerjawed in the accident.’). [...] whopperjawed adj 1. out of place, crooked. (‘That looks whopperjawed.’). |
2. crazy.
Dict. Amer. Sl. |